My fiance just bought me the JCW Grille Kit from OutMotoring. Prior to this kit, the only option to change the stock grilles to the black grilles was the modification of the Aero Kit grilles. OutMotoring has the JCW Grille kit that doesn't require modification.

http://www.outmotoring.com/mini-coop...rsion_kit.html

We attempted to install the JCW Grilles this evening but we couldn't figure out how to get the license plate bracket and the lower stock grille off without having to remove the bumper.

We came back into the house and searched on Google and on NAM and found guides that didn't really help all that much. They went into great detail about how to modify the Aero Grilles and that's it.

- How do we remove the license plate bracket without having to take the bumper off?
- How do we remove the lower stock grille without having to take the bumper off?

This is my R53 right now:


Thanks so much for everyone's help!!!!

Quadrivium10

you have to take off the front bumper ;-)


Don't worry though, it's very very easy to do.

You'll have to remove the bumper. Shouldn't take you more than 10-15 min to remove.

http://www.minicooperspeed.com/how-t...lar-front-end/

You won't have to complete all the steps here, just the bumper cover portion.

Thanks to both of you!!